{"id":5768,"date":"2020-01-11T18:34:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T16:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dazzlepop.net\/site\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2020-01-11T18:34:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T16:34:31","slug":"dark-side-to-emotional-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dazzlepop.net\/site\/dark-side-to-emotional-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Side to Emotional Intelligence."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dark Side to Emotional Intelligence. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When Daniel Goleman published the book\u00a0Emotional Intelligence<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>in 1995, few had heard of the term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In academic circles, it was a new concept \u2014 a theory formed by two psychologists, John D. Mayer and Peter Salovey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They posited that just as people have a wide range of intellectual abilities, they also have a wide range of emotional skills<\/a> that profoundly affect their thinking and actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fast forward to today. You\u2019ll find references to emotional intelligence<\/a> just about everywhere, most of them positive<\/a>: how emotional intelligence can make you a better leader, a better employee<\/a> or even a better spouse or parent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you don\u2019t see very often are references to the negative<\/em> aspects of emotional intelligence. But it\u2019s important to remember that emotional intelligence, much like \u201ctraditional\u201d intelligence, is not inherently virtuous. It\u2019s a tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, emotional intelligence can be used for good\u00a0or\u00a0<\/em>evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the dark side of emotional intelligence: using one\u2019s knowledge of emotions to strategically achieve self-serving goals. Much as a person possessing a brilliant intellect could become an accomplished detective or a criminal mastermind, one with a superior emotional quotient has a choice between two very different paths: using their influence to help or to harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists have become more interested in this dark side in recent years. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n